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@Fojfzveh @HSVSphere @vlads1776 Pretty sure they mean steam-run

@HSVSphere @vlads1776 how did you disable nix-shell? (serious)

My NixOS systems have never been pwned by malware executables because the poor elf dies of hunger while trying to find the global elf interpreter (hint: there isn't one) after it manages to get exec'd in a noexec mount

@platounderwater @TrueSlazac Bad model - even someone sympathetic to eugenics in the 1920s could have come up with *some* negative outcomes if they thought of it.

@TrueSlazac Welp that’s about what I expected

@GriggsWasWrong @chriswithans I always thought Jackson was a little bit more intelligent than Sotomayor, albeit more ideological. Then again, that might just be the age difference doing the work

@chriswithans What does it say about society when the dumbest libtard justice is the only one with kids

I’ll never get over the realization that the conservatives on SCOTUS have 16 children between them, which is an average of 2.67 per justice. Meanwhile the liberal justices have just 2 children, or 0.67 per liberal . Conservatives on the Supreme Court have 2 more children each on average and 4X as many children.

@mr_eee_esq @CovfefeAnon But the president can still pardon crimes in DC, which is the point

@CovfefeAnon You would think... But DC has been delegated local government and crime is charged under DC Code, not federal statute

The much more direct solution to this that is fully within the President's power is to simply keep Cole Allen in DC [where all crimes are federal] and offer a blanket pardon to anyone who happens to commit any crimes against him...

@ketansingh279 @polynoamial @NateSilver538 @ChatGPTapp @sama @gdb @markchen90 @tszzl @thsottiaux Codex lead as well

@polynoamial @NateSilver538 On this note, there should be a way to try a new model BEFORE one pays for the Subscription. Such trials should be available for all Free/Go customers who have been using the @ChatGPTapp for a long enough time cc: @sama @gdb @markchen90 @tszzl

LLM programming performance really deteriorates when you go from hundreds of lines of code to thousands. Like goes from "works like magic" to fairly often introducing bugs. Or maybe it's just an Opus 4.6/4.7 thing idk.

@AbstractEntityZ @alanthefisher @StatisticUrban I’m aware. There are still prevailing wind patterns to consider. There was a large fire less than 30 miles from my house that I never would have been aware of unless I read the news, because the winds don’t blow towards my house. That’s also why it never threatened my house.

@Flapling1 @alanthefisher @StatisticUrban A lot of the smoke comes from hundreds of miles away.

To this day, even having been, I still don't really understand why Pennsylvania is the 5th most populous state. I guess it's just really old, was really important for centuries, and has a lot of demographic inertia from that era. Because modern PA is not exactly a powerhouse.

@JeremyNguyenPhD @matthen2 @Anthropic “Codex, help me narrow down a Claude Code regression” 🤣

@matthen2 Thank you for sharing this. I've just downgraded: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@2.1.71 BTW, how did you narrow it down to 2.1.71 specifically.

The latest claude code burns $$ roughly 5x faster than version 2.1.71 with opus 4.6- I tested it today and tracked my usage I'm downgrading for now!

@trelivetrelaugh @alanthefisher @StatisticUrban In the worst case, they’ll move to some other Sunbelt state. They’re definitely not going back to Pennsylvania , where you get bone-chilling cold and swamp-like humidity in the same place.

@AbstractEntityZ @alanthefisher @StatisticUrban Talk is cheap. A given place tends to have smoke for a year or two, and then the source of the fire is gone, so there’s little smoke for decades afterward. Some people do have to move when their houses burn down and it’s too expensive to rebuild due to regulation or zoning.

@Flapling1 @alanthefisher @StatisticUrban I've already seen people talking about leaving western North America because of all the forest fire smoke.

@DPearsonPHL @StatisticUrban It still always boggles my mind why Philadelphia is still such a large city. There can’t be that many Comcast employees. I suppose being on the Acela corridor grants its own economic gravity, so it doesn’t fall into irrelevance like Upstate NY did

@StatisticUrban One of the biggest cities and metropolitan regions is in Pennsylvania. So of course we are the 5th largest.

@alanthefisher @StatisticUrban No one in the developed world is moving as a “climate refugee”, except to escape the snow. Florida isn’t going to sink beneath the waves, especially not this century. If California really struggles with water, they’ll pull their head out their asses and do desalination, etc.

@StatisticUrban It's never not been important. And I predict in the near future a lot of people will be moving here for various reasons including climate refugees

@kr0der @Kamron Don’t use fast if you need to stretch tokens - it’s 2x the tokens as normal mode. Can try high or even medium if that doesn’t help, but those control more the maximum reasoning effort than the average. Still worth it if Codex is really dotting i’s and crossing t’s unnecessarily

@Kamron 20x plan, i'm trying xhigh fast

guys i'm not gonna make it, 34% with 6 days remaining

An anecdote for you from LLM land: I sent Opus 4.7 out to do a literature survey of various government law enforcement internal guidelines w/r/t AML and KYC usage in prosecutions. It was much more successful at finding these docs than I would have expected. I then told it:

I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets: 1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father. 2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children. 3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do. 4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up. 5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die. If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.

This gives me new respect for Jussie Smollett. He bootstrapped his fake hate crime and paid for it himself rather than having SPLC organize and fund it for him. Support your local mom and pop hate crime hoax operations before they’re all put out of business by the big guys.

@constans @GlobalC35478 @StatisticUrban Also courts prefer not to rule until the plaintiffs can show standing, which is easier when the referendum has passed

@GlobalC35478 @StatisticUrban Hah. Honestly understandable, but now they have a big mess

This court already tried to block it and the VA Supreme Court overruled him and allowed the referendum. Now we await the VA Supreme Court's final decision. The court is pretty moderate, arguably even somewhat right-leaning.

@JacobAShell I got a Trump account with $1000 of free seed capital. The free money only applies if your baby was born after a certain date last summer.

Filed taxes. Where was my "Trump bump"? I had a kid even. Wasn't a $5000 "baby bonus" being discussed at some point

@MileHigh124 @maxtmcc @decunningham2 I agree with this in theory, but in practice people are conspiratorial, and politicians especially so when it comes to the balance of power. Increasing the number of house districts is probably the simplest long-term fix if we’re to keep districts.

@Flapling1 @maxtmcc @decunningham2 If the algorithm is told to optimize for compactness (perhaps with other factors) and does not even have partisanship data to work with, it won’t always spit out balanced maps but it shouldn’t ever even propose ridiculous gerrymanders.

Democrats do not have an actual, standalone proposal to ban partisan gerrymandering that does not involve California-style independent commissions - which no Republican in Congress would likely vote for.